Job Description
• Work closely with the engineering team, business unit leaders, and shift supervisors to optimize production. Key leader on the mill leadership team collaborating with all other business partners to achieve mill success.
• Providing leadership on the operating floor and striving for compliance in safety, health, environmental, and quality.
• Ensure all employees are working in a safe manner by developing a culture for where employees address unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors and participate and make suggestions for improvement; Identify safety gaps and self-initiative corrective actions.
• Be a change agent and actively promote safety activities and participation within the safety organization.
• Plan, assign and direct work for all hourly production employees and determine shift staffing needs; appraise performance and provide feedback as needed; assist in resolving complaints; hold employees accountable as needed; communicate issues and results on a daily basis.
• Also responsible for coaching, training, and developing operations personnel in safety, quality, production, problem solving, and technical and interpersonal communication skills; addressing key issues and concerns; and interacting with employees from other departments to ensure quality, on-time production.
• Exemplify and drive a continuous improvement culture.
• Utilize all available resources to ensure the product meets or exceed customer expectations.
• Ensure best practices are being followed for minimization of waste at machine centers.
• Track continuous improvement opportunities where performance issues are apparent and provide leadership/action plans for gap closure; follow up as required.
• Identify repairs needed at machine centers and create work requests for completion; follow up as required.
